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Hewlett Packard announced a board reorganisation last night after dismissing
the company’s recently appointed chief executive, Léo Apotheker, and
replacing him with the former eBay chief executive Meg Whitman.

The company’s board, which has faced intense criticism for dismissing three
chief executives in the space of seven years, said in a statement that Ms
Whitman, who joined the HP board in January this year, had “the right
operational and communication skills and leadership abilities to deliver
improved execution and financial performance” at the beleaguered company.

The statement did not indicate, however, whether the board was likely to stick
with Mr